Braunus brettlizorum ( Thomas, 1997 )

Barão, Kim Ribeiro, Garbelotto, Thereza De Almeida, Campos, Luiz Alexandre & Grazia, Jocelia, 2016, Unusual looking pentatomids: reassessing the taxonomy of Braunus Distant and Lojus McDonald (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae), Zootaxa 4078 (1), pp. 168-186 : 180-181

Braunus brettlizorum ( Thomas, 1997) comb. nov.

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Lojus brettlizorum Thomas, 1997: 570 –572, figs 1 –5, 8.

Material examined. Holotype ♂, COSTA RICA, Cartago, Ref. Nac. Tapanti, 9 ° 42 ’N 83 ° 46 ’W, 20–21.V. 1995, 4200 ft, B. Ratcliffe & M. Jameson leg. ( UNSM). Paratypes 1 ♂, 1 ♀: same label data as holotype ( DBTC).

Diagnosis. Body color dark brown. Anterior angles of pronotum each with small, inconspicuous, obtuse projection; each anterolateral margin serrated; humeral angles projecting laterad, each bilobed apically, lobes acute; posterior margin of pronotum concave ( Fig. 10). Apex of scutellum reaching anterior margin of abdominal segment VII on males and anterior margin of abdominal segment VI on females. Apex of hemelytral radial vein calloused; corium reaching posterior margin of abdominal segment VI; membranal veins linear, not reticulated; membrane fully developed on males, surpassing abdominal apex, and reduced to a thin stripe on females. Male genitalia: inferior layer of ventral rim of pygophore emarginated, with two small projections medially. Phallus: limit of sclerotized and membranous area of phallotheca straight. Each lateroventral conjunctival process hatchet-like, strongly sclerotized. Vesica cup-like ventrally. Process of gonopore bilobed apically. Female genitalia: sutural margins of each gonocoxite 8 parallel basally, divergent and straight apically; posterior margins of each gonocoxite 8 and laterotergite 8 straight; laterotergites 9 digitiform.

Distribution. Costa Rica (Cartago) ( Fig. 78).